heating
- noun
- /ˈhiːtɪŋ/
- The average house built since 1974 uses only 75 percent as much heating fuel as older houses.
- a heating system
- space heating
- electric heating
Yeah, with single colours and probably horrible heating or choky air con.
- Yeah, with single colours and probably horrible heating or choky air con.
- That's oil, gas and coal, which we currently use quite a lot for heating and cooking.
- Well, people care a lot more about their experience using heating than how it's delivered.
- So firstly, there was discussion about the costs of hydrogen heating versus heat pump heating.
- It also eliminates the concern of is AC on, is heating on or is neither on.
Examples
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The landlord promised to fix the heating before winter arrived.
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Have you hired someone to get you a decent heating system, or are you still getting estimates?
Fiction book (1998) -
- What? - It's the heating system.
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How many times have I told you not to play on the floor till the heating gets fixed?
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Grandma says, can you turn up the heating?
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Millions will spend Christmas in sub zero temperatures without heating, electricity or hot water.
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We still don't have heating and we need a new boiler.
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Central heating!
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A gust of hot air from the heating system puffed around Mary Frances.
Fiction book (1993) -
There's a full basement where we have an ultramodern central heating furnace with copper pipes, an oil burner.
Synonyms
The system that gives warmth to a building
A closed chamber that makes very high heat for melting metal, burning waste or heating buildings
A machine that makes a room or water warm
A machine that heats and keeps water, food, or a room hot
A system that warms a building by moving hot air or water
A system that warms a building by making hot water or air in one place and sending it to rooms
A machine that burns gas to make a room warm
A machine that uses electricity to make a room or small space warm
A system that heats a building by sending steam to radiators
A system in a building that makes warm air and sends it to rooms
Heat from burning natural gas to warm a building
A way to make a building warm by using panels in floors, walls, or ceilings that give out warmth
A system that warms rooms with hot wires or pipes inside walls, floors and ceilings
Antonyms
System that controls temperature and air movement inside buildings to keep people comfortable
Compounds
A system that warms a building by making hot water or air in one place and sending it to rooms
- Specialized
A metal part inside a kettle, oven, or heater that gets hot to make things warm
- Specialized
A system that makes hot vapor in a heater to warm rooms through pipes and radiators
- Specialized
Heating an insulating material with a high-frequency electric field that makes molecules move and heat up
- Specialized
To heat metal by making electric currents inside it using magnetic fields
- Specialized
A way to make a building warm by using panels in floors, walls, or ceilings that give out warmth
- Specialized
A system that warms rooms with hot wires or pipes inside walls, floors and ceilings
How Warm
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word heating comes from the simple word heat ('hot') plus the ending -ing, which shows an action or a system. So, heating is the action or system that makes a building or room warm.